Rooster really beating up my ladies

[Turnachick]

My roo attackes us, and hurts the chickens, I wonder how to catch him safely and decapitate him. also, how do I get a thing to remove the feathers, the coop is away from the house, so it is not easy to just put it in a pot of hot water. Any ideas of how to catch him, kill him and eat him? I never did this before!

 

[LaFleche]

My roo attackes us, and hurts the chickens, I wonder how to catch him safely and decapitate him. also, how do I get a thing to remove the feathers, the coop is away from the house, so it is not easy to just put it in a pot of hot water. Any ideas of how to catch him, kill him and eat him? I never did this before!

Just grab him from the roost at night, wrap him in a towel and use the broomstick method prior to decapitating.

 

[NatJ]

how do I get a thing to remove the feathers, the coop is away from the house, so it is not easy to just put it in a pot of hot water.

You can pluck the feathers (grab them and pull them out.) They come out easier after scalding (dipping in hot water), but you certainly can do it dry.

Or you can skin the chicken. Since the feathers are attached to the skin, that removes them too. It doesn't work well on some parts of the wings where the really big feathers grow, but is fine on the rest of the bird.

 

[roxanne]

In what way is he mean? Being big and breeding aren't signs of being mean.

Its pretty common for hens to have bare backs due to a rooster. Many of mine do, yet they fight over who gets to sleep next to him at night, and they follow him everywhere. He's a Freedom Ranger and is much bigger than the girls.

You can try trimming or filling his spurs.

If he is attacking people or being a bully, I would agree he needs to go. Feather loss with no blood isn't as much of an issue for your hens as it is for you.I

 

[roxanne]

In what way is he mean? Being big and breeding aren't signs of being mean.

Its pretty common for hens to have bare backs due to a rooster. Many of mine do, yet they fight over who gets to sleep next to him at night, and they follow him everywhere. He's a Freedom Ranger and is much bigger than the girls.

You can try trimming or filling his spurs.

If he is attacking people or being a bully, I would agree he needs to go. Feather loss with no blood isn't as much of an issue for your hens as it is for you.

He is vicious! I cannot even go in my run to enjoy my hens. He has broken the skin on my hands and my legs so many times. When we first got him, he was not like this. He doesn’t mess with my husband, but he is not afraid of me at all.

 

[Turnachick]

Just grab him from the roost at night, wrap him in a towel and use the broomstick method prior to decapitating.

Thanks so much, what is the broomstick method?

 

[Eggcessive]

Wait until after dark when he is on the roost sleeping. Using a head lamp with the red light or a flashlight, pick him off the roost grabbing his legs and put him into dog crate. Then dispatch him or rehome him.

 

[Turnachick]

Thnaks so much!

 

[NatJ]

Thanks so much, what is the broomstick method?

Broomstick method: put the chicken on the ground, lay a broomstick over his neck, step on the broomstick, and pull on the chicken. It's supposed to dislocate the neck and kill the chicken. If you want to try it, go learn more about it first, because I've never actually tried it, and I probably missed some important detail.

Personally, I kill chickens with a hatchet or machete and a chopping block. Hold the chicken upside down by the feet until it quits flapping, lay the head on the chopping block, chop off the head. Then either keep holding the body while it flaps, or sit it down to run around like a chicken with its head cut off.

Some other people put the chicken in a cone with the head sticking out the bottom, and cut the head off with loppers or a sharp knife. Instead of a purpose-made cone, some folks use a feed bag or a jug with a hole for the head. Restraining the chicken can be safer for the person, and keeps the body from going all over the place as it tries to flap after death. I've never tried using loppers (made for tree branches) or a knife to behead a chicken, so I don't know what details make it work better or worse.

 

[MissE]

He is vicious! I cannot even go in my run to enjoy my hens. He has broken the skin on my hands and my legs so many times. When we first got him, he was not like this. He doesn’t mess with my husband, but he is not afraid of me at all.

He needs to be Sunday dinner.